the economy is not growing. we expected something different because the jobs numbers look pretty good. >>steve: our economy at the moment is contracting, and that's -- look, a whole bunch of excuses as to why this is happening. years ago it was the tsunami. that's what's hurting. then it was the wicked europeans. then it was those wicked republicans. now of course it's president bush all over again. or sanding or lower defense spending. there's always an excuse. the fact is we've spent an enormous amount of money -- trillions of dollars -- building up our bureaucracy. we've got a bureaucratic mess on our hands and we don't have a vibrant economy. what you're talking about here is this duplicative funding for research. they ran all these research grants through the computer, subtracting software that comes up with duplication, and they found dozens of examples at a cost of $70 million since 2002, where we're spent twice for the same research. now, that's not a lot of money. understood. but it's typical of what yo